scholarly journals Imaging and neuropsychological correlates of white matter lesions in different subtypes of Mild Cognitive Impairment: A systematic review

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlene L.M. Lam ◽  
Jenny Yiend ◽  
Tatia M.C. Lee
2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 1336-1345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Mortamais ◽  
Florence Portet ◽  
Adam M. Brickman ◽  
Frank A. Provenzano ◽  
Jordan Muraskin ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Devine ◽  
J. Andres Saez Fonseca ◽  
Zuzana Walker

ABSTRACTBackground: Cerebral white matter lesions (WML), evident on CT and MRI brain scans, are histopathologically heterogeneous but associated with vascular risk factors and thought mainly to indicate ischemic damage. There has been disagreement over their clinical prognostic value in predicting conversion from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia.Methods: We scrutinised and rated CT and MRI brain scans for degree of WML in a memory clinic cohort of 129 patients with at least 1 year of follow-up. We examined the relationship between WML severity and time until conversion to dementia for all MCI patients and for amnestic (aMCI) and non-amnestic (naMCI) subgroups separately.Results: Five-year outcome data were available for 87 (67%) of the 129 patients. The proportion of patients converting to dementia was 25% at 1 year and 76% at 5 years. Patients with aMCI converted to dementia significantly earlier than those with naMCI. WML severity was not associated with time to conversion to dementia for either MCI patients in general or aMCI patients in particular. Among naMCI patients, there was a tendency for those with a low degree of WML to survive without dementia for longer than those with a high degree of WML. However, this was not statistically significant.Conclusions: MCI subtype is a significant independent predictor of conversion to dementia, with aMCI patients having higher risk than naMCI for conversion throughout the 5-year follow-up period. WML severity does not influence conversion to dementia for aMCI but might accelerate progression in naMCI.


2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 1431-1443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Babiloni ◽  
Michela Pievani ◽  
Fabrizio Vecchio ◽  
Cristina Geroldi ◽  
Fabrizio Eusebi ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 27-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils Richter ◽  
Anne Michel ◽  
Oezguer A. Onur ◽  
Lutz Kracht ◽  
Markus Dietlein ◽  
...  

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e56972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Mortamais ◽  
Christelle Reynes ◽  
Adam M. Brickman ◽  
Frank A. Provenzano ◽  
Jordan Muraskin ◽  
...  

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